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oaober Perf° rated through its whole fubftance, fo as to form a rude
i--- -— j but ftupentjous arch or cavern, opening diredtlv to the fea :
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this aperture was feventy-five feet long, twenty-feven broad,
and five and forty high, commanding a view o f the bay and
the hills on the other fide, which were feen through it, and
opening at once upon the view, produced an effedt far fupe-
rior to any of the contrivances of art.
As they were returning to the watering-place in the even-
tng, they met an old man, who detained them fome time by
fhowing them the military exercifes of the country with the
lance and Patoo-Patoo, which are all the weapons in ule.
The lance is from ten to fourteen feet long, made of a very
hard wood, and fliarp at both ends | the Patoo-Patoo has been
defcribed already, it is about a foot long, made of Talc or
bone, with fharp edges, and ufed as a battle-axe. A poft or
flake was fet up as his enemy, to which he advanced with a
moll furious afpedl, brandifhing his lance, which he grafped
with great firmnefs; when it was fuppofed to have been
pierced by his lance, he ran at it with his Patoo-Patoo, and
falling upon the upper end of it, which was to reprefent his
adverfary s head, he laid on with great vehemence, ftriking
many blows, any one of which would probably have fplit the
Tcull of an ox. From our champion’s falling upon his mock
enemy with the Patoo-Patoo, after he was fuppofed to have
been pierced with the lance, our Gentlemen inferred, that in
the battles of this country there is no quarter.
This afternoon, we fet up the armourer’s forge, to repair
the braces of the tiller which had been broken, and went on
getting our wood and water, without fuffering the lead mo-
leftation from the natives; who came down with different
forts o f fifh, which we purchafed with cloth, beads, and glafs
bottles, as ufual.
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